What's the difference between annals and diary?

Annals


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
  • (n. pl.) Historical records; chronicles; history.
  • (n. pl.) The record of a single event or item.
  • (n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
  • (2) Yet the biography of this pupil and successor of Korsakov is that of a liberal, who championned the cause of human rights under the ancient regime, and in particular those of the mentally ill. His theoretical writings, published in the medico-psychological Annales in 1903-1904, are a contribution to the critique made by the French speaking school of the extended conception of dementia praecox developed by Kraepelin in 1899, and taken up by Bleuler in 1911, with his description of the group of schizophrenias.
  • (3) A specimen attributed to Phalacrotophora fasciata (Fallén) by Dr. A. Delage (1974, Annales de Parasitologie 49 (4), 495-500) is recognised as a new species.
  • (4) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
  • (5) The document, which includes scores for more than 70 cancer drugs, has been published in the Annals of Oncology journal.
  • (6) A 50% random sample of issues of New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, and Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy published in 1979 was reviewed, and all citable items were classified as one of nine types of communications.
  • (7) (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 277:436-466) reported the effectiveness of adjuvant specific active immunotherapy of lung carcinoma in improving the postoperative survival of stage I lung carcinoma patients in a phase II study using lung carcinoma-associated antigen (TAA) and complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA).
  • (8) What happened next passed into the annals of international jurisprudence as the first time a former head of state had faced arrest under international human rights law, principally the Convention Against Torture that came into force in 1987.
  • (9) The polar concept was first presented in February-May 1938, and was to receive full recognition from the Havana's Committee on Nomeclature and published in the Annals of the 5th International Congress of Leprosy (April 1948).
  • (10) (A. Voltz, J. Richard, B. Pesson, and J. Jourdane, 1986, Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 61, 617-623).
  • (11) For Annals of Emergency Medicine, (AEM) volumes for 1975, 1980, and 1985 were studied.
  • (12) The purpose of this paper is to record objectively the contribution of Annals of Surgery to the development of the science of surgery and its application to patient care in commemoration of its Centennial.
  • (13) Mickelson has five majors to his name, a statistic that places him alongside Seve Ballesteros, Peter Thomson and Byron Nelson in the golfing annals.
  • (14) The Swedish study, reported in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases medical journal, is the latest authoritative endorsement by medical researchers of fish's protective role against a range of illnesses.
  • (15) Further, an estimator proposed by Srivastava (1984, Biometrika 71, 177-185) is shown to be identical to the modified sib-mean estimator (Konishi, 1982, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 34, 505-515) when the sib-sib correlation is estimated by the method of unweighted group means.
  • (16) The purpose of our study was to compare the completeness of methodology reporting in three acute care journals, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Journal of Trauma.
  • (17) The Knowledge has rummaged furiously through its annals, but just can't beat that.
  • (18) • Marc Abrahams is editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel prizes
  • (19) The old Icelandic annals tell that the Black Death came to Bergen, Norway, in 1349 with a ship from England.
  • (20) Last week he declared : “We will never find anything more beautiful in the annals of Russian history in the Middle East” than the liberation of Palmyra.

Diary


Definition:

  • (n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
  • (a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (2) A 99.0% response rate was obtained: 2750 of a possible 2778 diaries were returned.
  • (3) The personal experience of our son's prolonged hospitalization due to osteomyelitis (23 days) was detailed by an ongoing diary.
  • (4) The symptom diary and weekly questionnaire were demonstrated to be valid and responsive to change.
  • (5) It was my first day as a journalist, at the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary, situated on the floor below.
  • (6) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (7) The addition of the lower dose of nifedipine to atenolol did not significantly alter the weekly consumption of glyceryl trinitrate or the mean number of anginal attacks as assessed by diary cards.
  • (8) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
  • (9) And the government doesn't ask 300 million people; it asks only 7,000 families to keep diaries about how much they're spending on a basket of 200 products; the diaries lasted for either two weeks or three months.
  • (10) A ccording to Michael Palin's diary for Saturday 9 January 1982, he rang his friend George Harrison at 9pm.
  • (11) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
  • (12) Symptom diaries were maintained throughout the period of follow-up.
  • (13) The hypothesis that bronchial asthma might follow a biorhythmic pattern was tested in 25 asthmatics with moderate to severe obstruction who completed daily diaries of respiratory symptoms and medication use.
  • (14) The activity of ulcerative colitis and response to therapy was based upon daily stool diaries, sigmoidoscopy, and symptomatic response.
  • (15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (16) Clearance of secretions by antibiotics was also identified by the patients, using a diary card score.
  • (17) The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Daily Sleep Diary (DSD), an instrument developed for monitoring sleep among chronic pain patients.
  • (18) The clinical efficacy of a new slow release preparation of the calcium antagonist gallopamil was assessed in 20 patients by diary cards and treadmill exercise tests.
  • (19) Student diaries and ethnographic data were used to explore how students manage the transition and to document their coping strategies.
  • (20) Sixteen patients recorded anginal symptoms by the diary method over a 6 month trial of randomly sequenced 1 month periods of drug or placebo.

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